Hydrodynamic Design and Test Groups Group Leader - Active Clearance Required

LLNL•Livermore, CA

17h•Onsite

About The Position

We have an opening for a Group Leader within the Hydrodynamic Design and Test Groups . The role combines administrative line supervisor responsibilities within the Defense Technologies Engineering Division (DTED) with programmatic group lead responsibilities for the Weapon Physics and Design (WPD) program, as the Program Group Leader for Device Engineering. You will lead a multi-disciplinary group to design, fabricate, assemble, and deliver experimental devices for test execution, generate cost and schedule estimates, identify capability gaps, and provide high level guidance for resolving resource conflicts. In addition, you will supervise, mentor, and develop a broad range of technical staff. This position is administratively in DTED, within the Engineering Directorate, and programmatically under the Hydrodynamic and Subcritical Experiments Program Element within WPD. This position requires full-time on-site presence due to the nature of the work. This position will be filled at either level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level.

Requirements

This position requires an active Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance or active Top Secret clearance issued by another U.S. government agency at the time of hire.
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Civil, Aerospace, Materials, Systems, or Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent level of education and related experience.
Significant knowledge or experience with several of the following areas: strategic weapon systems, hardware engineering, fabrication, testing, high explosives, and fielding experiments.
Significant experience in mechanical engineering project leadership, including work planning, scheduling, cost estimating, risk analysis, and reporting.
Significant experience working with and mentoring multi-disciplinary career staff.
Expert verbal and written communication skills necessary to effectively collaborate in a team environment and present and explain technical information and provide advice to management.
Effective leadership, interpersonal, and supervisory skills to lead and assess personnel performance in a team environment.
Expert level facilitation and collaboration skills necessary to promote and maintain productive relationships across programs and directorates.
Significant knowledge of, or experience with, design applications employing high explosive materials and the associated DOE safety requirements.
Expert knowledge of, and significant experience in engineering design principles and tools for program execution.
Significant experience in the leadership of personnel for technical projects, including establishing staffing pipelines and technical mentorship across a broad range of activities.
Expert level experience presenting, influencing, and advising senior management and external sponsors.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in Engineering or related fields.
Broad knowledge of Laboratory policies and practices.
Ability to obtain and maintain qualification in the Laboratory Human Reliability Program (HRP).

Responsibilities

Supervise and provide administrative direction, guidance, support, mentoring, coaching, and promote teamwork for group personnel. This includes assessing employee total contribution and conducting employee performance reviews as well as recruiting, hiring, and onboarding new staff as needed.
Provide technical, safety, and security leadership to group personnel and activities and collaborate with project principals and group personnel in defining employee work assignments.
Exercise advanced level skills in the application and development of engineering best practices, and/or business principles, and theories, concepts, and techniques for the development of hardware subject to extreme environments with significant safety implications.
Serve as a liaison between manufacturing support, high explosive assembly, and Strategic Deterrence (SD) programs by guiding priority discussions, deconflictions, and managing complex schedules.
Represent customer interests at program interface meetings.
Lead efforts to improve fabrication throughput to increase efficiency and reduce the time from experiment initiation to execution.
Serve as the work control authorizing individual for key assembly facilities.
Lead and participate in engineering design reviews by acting as a chairperson, panel member, or reviewer while upholding Engineering Policy and Procedures.
Serve as a member of the Hydro council to evaluate the feasibility of manufacturing and assembly of complex experimental devices.
Monitor performance required to meet programmatic milestones and deliverables and lead corrective actions where necessary.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Set high level goals and direction for accomplishing program goals.
Pilot change by developing new innovative projects or programs, modifying approaches, and/or redefining customer requirements to impact operations or directions.
Develop strategic technical advice for management and external customers on project execution, efficiency and opportunities for program development.
Serve on external scientific or technical committees.
Mentor staff across the organization, including other mentors.